Everyone has their top ten lists about this time. My former Tom’s Hardware news hound colleagues, Wolfgang Gruener and Scott M. Fulton, have put together what I think is one of the best collections on the year’s top stories in review.

From the revival of Apple, the mis-steps of Sony BMG, the rise of the Xbox 360, and the fight over HD DVD formats, this piece makes for a compelling review of where we have been over the past year.